> At 05:12 AM 8/28/2003, Aaron Ardiri wrote:
>>> You might want to add NS Basic/Palm to your list. It's been around for 3
>>> years, looks and feels a lot like VB, and fully supports Palm OS 5. It is
>>> also pleasantly less expensive than the others.
>>
>>now, in regards to support for OS5 - which ones transparently allow
>>you to compile into native ARM code (PNO-lets) :P first basic environment
>>that allows you to do that will probably win the race.
>
> Isn't that yBasPad from Ron? It is an interpreter that's already been
> implemented entirely in a PNO, IIRC.
cbasPad5 <http://www.hotpaw.com/rhn/palm> is only a demonstration beta of a Basic interpreter implemented completely inside a PNO(armlet).
It does prove an interesting point: that if you needed to use gcc -O4 and hand-coded 68k assembly language to get the performance you needed on a Palm V, a simple Basic program might be able to run your code even faster when interpreted natively on a modern ARM CPU based Palm OS 5 handheld.
For my use right now, CW v9 seems to be the most useful Windows-based IDE for PalmOS development because it has both 68k and ARM compilers integrated, and much better pno-let floating point performance than the current gcc tools. But I'd much prefer to use a Mac OS X IDE if there were a supported one available.
Ron Nicholson HotPaw Productions <http://www.hotpaw.com/rhn/palm>
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